Bill Denton wrote:

But "corporate memory" is a valuable asset: if you hire a new machinist, he
generally doesn't need to know anything about the company in order to
immediately become productive.

Within limits, this is true at my former employer, but our slogan was "Performance
from Experience", and that experience will be vastly reduced if the company does turn
around.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.